David Berlind did this excellent interview with Wolfgang Gentzsch, who is one of the pioneers of grid technology,anddispels some of the myths of grid computing. In the past, I've tried to dispel ...

These types of problems are “embarrassingly parallel,” in the words of Shahin Khan, Sun Microsystems Inc.s vice president of high-performance and technical computing, because theyre so ...

This may seem like an obvious distinction, but a lot of coverage seems to gloss over the distinction between two aspects of support for grid or cloud computing: Making software run at all on many ...

Grid Computing, The New Commodity Date: August 25, 2009 Source: ICT Results Summary: Researchers have created a platform for trading computing resources that allows the selling and buying of ...

High Performance Computing and High Performance Technical Computing in my experience are cluster-based highly complex propositions not undertaken lightly.

Grid computing captured imaginations by creating 'Net-based virtual supercomputers out of hundreds of thousands of existing computers. But like many big ideas, grid computing is fraught with ...

Big Blue is reaching out to several new types of customers with offers that link groups of computers and storage systems to tackle difficult computing tasks.

Corey Klaasmeyer defines grid computing and contrasts it with cluster computing. This article also leads the reader through a simple Globus Toolkit 4 grid service implementation.

Cates says that the grid solution cost Wachovia a fraction of what it would have cost to upgrade the large Unix environment?an upgrade that wouldn’t have produced anything like the same ...